Southern Tier Tripel

Luminous orange in the glass with a white ring of head. Little activity on the pour. Aromas are baguette at first, followed by oats and cereal and a juicy lemon citrus on the nose. Fuzzy palate is tangy and off -- highly astringent. Hops aren’t present -- the bite seems to come from sharp cereal malts. I think of tripels as refined and delicate. This one is rough like a saison.

On the pour a great aroma flows from the bottle and floods the room. Fabulous, fruity, bready, almost hefeweizen nose. Great stuff. Pour is equally good, up there with the best tripels. Nice and light golden hue with a thick, THICK head that leaves solid lacing down the glass. Unfortunately, the flavor fails miserably in comparison to the actual beer. Tinny, metallic taste with very little of the fruity maltiness it advertises. It’s shooting for a bit of hoppiness, but it blends awfully with the tripel brew and comes off as a completely failed mixture. Bad steely aftertaste much like the taste itself that stays in the mouth for a looong time. Not a good effort here for Southern Tier... steer clear of this one. Yuck.

I was a little dissapointed with this. Gold pour with a bread and banana aroma. A bread and citrus taste. It was different but I was hoping for more.

22oz bottle,bright yellow gold color, with a white head, leaving laces, sweet honeyed pale malt nose, with some floral hop leafy, piney notes, with a faint coriander spiciness, a light fruity, warming aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, mild honeyed pale malt, fruity, flowery hop grassy character of citrus and candied lemon peels, with a hint of spiced coriander, with some lemony leafiness, with a note of sweet cany sugar in a warming mouthfeel, leading towards a honeyish, warmth, grassy, citrusy hop bittering finish.

Decent Tripel, but nothing to write home about. A little too sweet. Hops is too prevelent. More like a sweet hoppy ale.

12 oz bottle: Aroma has a nice light bubblegum, clove, spice, light amount of yeast if any, and some light alcohol notes. Appearance is a clear golden but slightly amber pour with little to no head that diminishes into a soapy white film. Taste is decent nicely spiced, somewhat dry on the back of the throat. Sweet alcohol twang to this beer makes it interesting. Wheaty, sharp, dry, mouth coating, and spiced. Overall, It’s a nice and refreshing Belgian-esqe tripel. I would by it at the bar if it was on tap. Cheers!

Pours a golden yellow with a nice head that reduces but sticks around through out. Smells of honey and hops and just a bit of the alcohol comes through. Not exactly what I am used to from a tripel but it is a good beer overall. It is smooth but slightly bitter. A so-so tripel.

Meh, quite disappointing as a labelled "tripel." Tasted like an American Wheaty Pilsner on steroids when all was said and done. The pour was weak from the get go, hazy amber colored pour, weak initial head, especially horrid within style, no retention of even what was there, lacing miserable. The aroma was weak, caramel, grass, herbal notes. The flavor was grassy, herbal, slightly vegetal hops, caramel in the base, earthy wheaty type notes, some floral notes, some spiciness, nothing identifiable from a spice rack per se, maybe the spicing came from the hops. Mouthfeel was hoppy zippy with a bitter finish, fairly thin for the style. Lacked yeasty elements that need to be there. Sorry, I’m normally ok w/ ST, but this is a poor attempt at the style, honestly.